The town of Lansing department of parks & recreation is currently accepting applications for a campsite manager for the campground located in Myers Park. Ability to live in the camp area for the season is recommended. Interested applicants may contact the department at

533-7388 for specifics. Applications due 3/9/12.

Lansing's County Legislator Pat Pryor asked the Lansing Town Board to pass a resolution urging Congress not to pass a new bill that would change the way public transportation is funded.  Pryor said the bill would threaten the way Tompkins County Area Transit plans finances and possibly threaten its actual funding.

"I don't know how much you know about our local transportation system," Pryor said.  "It's a good one.  For a city and county of our size it's considered to be the best in the nation.  Right now there is a proposal before Congress that would change the way TCAT and public transportation systems across the country are funded."

Tompkins County Legislature Chair Martha Robertson today issued a statement regarding Governor Cuomo’s recently reported comments concerning the State’s process and timetable for making a decision on whether to allow hydrofracking in New York State.

The County Legislature, by unanimous or near-unanimous votes, has taken several critical stands on the gas drilling issue—including advocating a statewide ban on such drilling, citing “many continuing flaws” in the Department of Environmental Conservation’s draft regulatory document.

The County’s Independent Redistricting Commission put its recommended plan for reapportioning County legislative districts before the public again Thursday, at the second of two public hearings, held this time in the City of Ithaca.  About 30 people attended the hearing, including seven County legislators.

The Commission’s currently favored proposal would reduce the number of County legislative districts from 15 to 14, keeping the boundaries of the Villages of Lansing and Cayuga Heights intact and decreasing the number of “sliver districts” in the Town of Ithaca.  Four legislative districts would be created within the City of Ithaca, none of which would extend into the Town.

After studying numerous proposed concept plans for new Legislature space at three meetings held over the past month, the Legislature’s Capital Plan Review Committee today achieved a design recommendation to present to the full Legislature to move the process along to its next step.

After more than two hours’ discussion, the Committee voted 5-0 to recommend relocation of the Legislature to the second floor of the Old County Courthouse and a schematic design for the required renovation.  The proposed resolution also states that the Legislature plans to renovate and move into the space currently occupied by the Supreme Courtroom “as soon as is practical,” but no later the end of this year, and it directs staff to develop the budget for the renovations for final approval by the Legislature.

Following the release of an updated study on the greenhouse gas effect of methane release from high-volume hydrofracturing from researchers at Cornell University , Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (D/WF-125) sent a letter to a number of state officials outlining the study’s significance. DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens, Governor Cuomo and Lois New, Acting Director of the NYS Climate Change Office, all received the letter.